Park Presbyterian Church Beaver

The Adult Education Class will begin a new 4 week series on April 19th at 9:45 am

The details and syllabus of each week are available on the Sunday school / Adult Education page

We have many words that separate our faith-Selves from our physical-Selves.  Soul vs body or beliefs vs. brain, to name a few.  But what if God wants us to love with our Whole Selves?  What if the way we care for our own physical needs is one of the ways we express love to God?

Many of us have learned to divide our lives into parts—spiritual and physical, inner and outer, sacred and ordinary. We pray, we believe, we serve… and yet the ways we eat, we move, and we respond to stress often feel completely separate from those fundamental actions of faith. At the same time, we carry quiet assumptions about ourselves: that our worth is tied to what we can do, that needing help is weakness, or that caring for ourselves is somehow less important than caring for others. But what if none of that is true? What if we are not meant to live divided lives at all?

In this four-week study, we will explore what it means to live as “whole selves”—people whose bodies, relationships, and daily habits are all held within God’s life. Drawing on Scripture and insights from medicine, we will examine how change actually happens, why we are not meant to live alone, what it means to be precious in God’s sight, and how that truth reshapes the way we treat both ourselves and others. This is not a course about trying harder or becoming better versions of ourselves. It is an invitation to see more clearly, to receive care more freely, and to live more fully as people who already belong to God—“for in him we live and move and have our being.”